Comment 152 for bug 194214

The bugs are probably closely related and may even have identical causes in the end, but the original symptoms are very different. For this bug there was a patch to xorg-server that worked for most people - but apparently not all.
But until it is established that they *do* have identical causes, I'd vote for keeping the bug separate.

@Martin Pool: Are you sure you experience *this* bug? The symtoms of this bug are described for example here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/194214/comments/103 (if you say it happens "a few times an hour", I don't think you keep restarting your X-Server every couple of minutes to get out of key repeat loops?), however the symptoms of bug 124406 are intermittent key repeats (and probably key losses) that stop *by themselves* after a few repeats, and are much more visible for normal keys instead of modifier keys.